Word: conant
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...book, Sandel critiques the brand of liberal theory associated with Conant University Professor John Rawls, who argues that justice should be the primary value in a liberal society. Rawls claimed that his theory is best suited to a society which accepts the right of individuals to determine their own lives. Rawls also maintains that his theory presupposes no particular ideas about human nature. Sandel attacks this last claim, criticizing the view implicit in these theories, and suggests that an outlook based on community values rather than individual values would be more appropriate...
...Harvard as a leader in the world of the academy. I think we all took heart in Harvard's actions," said Riesman. Harvard's public image and its handling of the most celebrated cases did set the University apart from other colleges in the nation. Despite President James B. Conant's '14 signature on a 1949 National Education Association report which stated that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Harvard did take a comparatively firm stand against McCarthy; first, by selecting Pusey to succeed Conant; and second, by refusing to fire professors who either admitted that they...
...summer after my father's freshman year, Harvard's president, James B. Connel '12, looked to the future in a speech before the American Chemical Society. "The year 1984," Conant said, "does not glare with menace in my crystal ball...
...CONANT'S reading accurate? Today, no Harvard professor would make demeaning generalizations about Radcliffe students in print. But in the last five years three Faculty members have been officially punished for sexually harassing a student or colleague. An extensive survey released last fall revealed that more than a third of all female students and teachers in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences felt they had experienced sexual harassment...
After that summer with the Bakers, college was a bit of a let-down. A "B" student in my earlier years, I suddenly began to sprout "A's" on my blue books. My only outside job was chauffeuring Harvard's then-new president, James Bryant Conant '14, and his family--which entailed meeting many corporate executives at Back Bay Station en route to meetings of the Overseers. They all chatted amiably with their student chauffeur but the only advice I remember was from Charles Townsend Copeland when I drove him to what must have been one of his very last...